DOWIE'S COURT OUT

NOW Iain Dowie's entertaining court dispute with his former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan is over - final judgement still to come - the Coventry City boss will have more time to spend with his laptop.

NOW Iain Dowie's entertaining court dispute with his former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan is over - final judgement still to come - the Coventry City boss will have more time to spend with his laptop.

The most entertaining moments of the case came when Jordan's team won the right to examine the portable PC - and found a document on plans for Charlton titled 'Advancing The Addicks', created three days before Dowie quit Selhurst.

That, they discovered, was a rewritten copy of another file called 'Soaring The Eagles' which Dowie had shown at his interview for the Palace job. And another copy existed, ready for a potential interview at Derby, titled 'Reinvigorating The Rams'.

What's the betting his Coventry presentation was called 'Blue Sky Thinking For Sky Blues'.